Listening Quotes

• I start listening to something, or I'm seeing somebody a lot or seeing their art. And then I just really want to make a picture of them.

  

  Elizabeth Peyton
  • Art
  • Picture
  • Listening

• My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like Frank Zappa.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Remember
  • Dad
  • Listening

• It's the role of us to run our government, the government by the people, for the people, and I don't think our government is listening to the people. It's our role as patriots to question them, because we elected them. And if they're not fairly and accurately representing us, it's the job of the people, the patriots, to take their country back.

  

  Maynard James Keenan
  • People
  • Country
  • Job

• It's nice when people say, 'God, I've been listening to you since 1963 or 1985, or whatever.' I appreciate anybody who goes out and buys music these days.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • People
  • Music
  • God

• Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.

  

  Luciano Berio
  • People
  • Important
  • Together

• I like to put something on and want to listen to it again once I get done listening to it, not feel like I need an ear break.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Done
  • Listening

• I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.

  

  Graham Nash
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.

  

  Kiki Smith
  • World
  • Music
  • Family

• That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.

  

  Jay-Z
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

  

  Jane Asher
  • World
  • Bad
  • Listening

• Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.

  

  Ahmet Ertegun
  • People
  • Remember
  • Listening

• Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a word of it. Melody to me will always be a million times more important than words.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Music
  • Important
  • Words

• You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • People
  • Long
  • Real

• Babyface is one of the top songwriters in the world ever, and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis have worked with everybody that I grew up listening to.

  

  Algee Smith
  • Up
  • World
  • Listening

• Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

  

  Artie Shaw
  • Up
  • Surgeon
  • Clarinet

• You can get into a comfort zone writing lyrics, like wearing a mask. But I wanted to feel uncomfortable when I was listening back to the lyrics; I wanted to squirm.

  

  Yannis Philippakis
  • Writing
  • Lyrics
  • Wearing A Mask

• In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • World
  • Music
  • Listening

• The key to acting - from what little I know about that wonderful craft - is listening, and interacting with the other person in order to achieve magic. One way to do that is almost to provoke.

  

  James Gray
  • Listening
  • Magic

• I had a brother six years older than me, so I wasn't just listening to teenybopper stuff. My brother had the cooler music, but my parents had the Burt Bacharach, Tom Jones, the Association, the Fifth Dimension; these groups were un-cool, but I secretly loved them.

  

  Jill Sobule
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Cool

• I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Up
  • Music
  • Spiritual

• But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago.

  

  Marc Wallice
  • Positive
  • Listening
  • Gossip

• You need a pulse in a film. If I see a film that doesn't have rhythm, it's like listening to music that doesn't have rhythm; it doesn't really work.

  

  Joe Wright
  • Work
  • Music
  • Listening

• You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • Time
  • Song
  • Listening

• Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

  

  Alan Vega
  • Music
  • Listening

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